The gold standard of business information for the twenty-first century, Business will also be a source of inspiration and insight, with original essays from more than 150 world-renowned business thinkers, leaders, academics, and practitioners such as Charles Handy, Warren Bennis, Jim Collins, Thomas Petzinger, Jr., Peter L. Bernstein, and John Seely Brown. Unprecedented in scope (2.5 million words, 2,200 pages), Business covers all significant intellectual, practical, and factual areas in the field of management. A major feature of Business is an authoritative world almanac featuring 26 industry sector surveys and profiles of 150 countries and all U.S. states. Lively biographies of the management thinkers who have shaped the world as we know it-from Adam Smith to Peter Drucker, from Henry Ford to Estée Lauder-will inform and entertain, while digests of the 70 most influential business books ever published are certain to spark debate. In addition, Business includes a comprehensive dictionary, an anthology of quotations, and an extensive source section covering nearly 200 topics from accounting to team building.Guided by an eminent team of editors and advisors, Business equips everyone who works with the tools necessary to learn from yesterday and prepare for tomorrow.Business is the first-ever comprehensive resource on business and management. A remarkable compendium of lively essays, inspiring biographies, and impressive source materials, Business features the following:Original Best-Practice Essays from 150 of Today's Thought LeadersFascinating Profiles of Top Management Thinkers and PioneersA Management Library-The 70 Most Important Business Books of All TimeIndispensable Management Checklists and Action ListsFirst-Class World Business AlmanacComprehensive Dictionary of 5,000 Business TermsBusiness Information Sources -Where to Go from HereVisit www.ultimatebusinessresource.com This ambitious work attempts to create a one-stop resource for the business world. First, by analyzing the various industries, the language of business, and the ideas of both pioneers and current leaders, it provides a guidebook to working in, managing, and building today's companies. In addition, it includes an outstanding collection of 150 original essays written by business practitioners and leaders as well as academics like Philip Kotler, Mark Brown, and Laura Ries. Separate sections offering management checklists and actionlists lead readers through procedures for coaching, writing job descriptions, and starting a small business, as well as building a web site and creating product literature. Readers will be inspired by both the management library and the biography section (featuring, for instance, Adam Smith and Este Lauder), while the dictionary of some 5000 international terms and the world business almanac with its 24-industry sector surveys and profiles of 150 countries are valuable reference sources in their own right. The "Business Information Sources" section lists 3000 resources organized into 100 subject areas, including web sites, books, magazines, and organizations. An introduction by Daniel Goleman (Primal Leadership; Emotional Intelligence) completes the package. Any library or personal business collection will want a copy of this unique and reasonably priced reference. Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico Lib., Albuquerque Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Weighing in at seven pounds and running to more than 2,100 pages, this colossus (200 contributors, 2.5 million words, 700 illustrations, 150 maps) is most definitely not your father's reference book. Although it fits into the traditional category of specialized desktop encyclopedia, the editors have done a wonderfully innovative job of designing it for the time-pressured, eye-weary business executive. The liberal use of white space, graphics, sidebars, and boxed features, plus a concisely informative writing style, will remind business research veterans of the Hoover's Handbook titles that were launched by Reference Press a decade ago. Business is arranged into stylishly presented sections. "Best Practice" provides dozens of two-page, signed essays covering topics such as "Strategic Agility," "Intellectual Capital," and "Mentoring." These essays are really executive summaries, and they include mini-case studies, tips, and suggestions for finding more information. The "Management Checklists" and "Actionlists" sections are organized into subsections on training, e-commerce, etc., and are intended to serve as a "comprehensive handbook of practical answers to everyday business challenges." "Management Library" summarizes highly influential business books. The next sections, "Business Thinkers" and "Management Giants," profile individuals such as Peter F. Drucker, John Jacob Astor, and F. W. Woolworth. The "Dictionary" gives definitions of more than 5,000 international business terms, acronyms, and abbreviations, and the "World Business Almanac" conta